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Susan Baran and Mark Visione are both passionate printmakers with decades of experience and they will exhibit along side one another displaying recent works.A Room of One's Own stems from a quote by Virginia Woolf as presented in a paper at Cambridge University in 1928, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". This statement transcends the boundaries of a writer to reach out to all creatives.
Susan Baran who has studied printmaking at both the National Art School and City Art Institute (COFA) now teaches at Warringah Printmakers Studio and Primrose Paper Arts Centre. The upcoming exhibition is based around the theme of free flowing creativity without the ties of responsibility or an awareness of time, ‘a room of one's own'. An individual's search for their sanctuary becomes a journey, one in which Baran feels she is at the juncture of discovering.
Using the technique of photopolymer printmaking, Baran pushes the realms of this medium by overprinting and re-inking. This method produces a richness, colours that pull you into the paper's surface, earthy tones that create interior landscapes with a sense of familiarity. Each image has a layering of objects, as in the layering of one's mind - the juxtaposition of patterns with an angel or perhaps a vase of flowers leads the viewer to question the narrative.
Baran investigates the boundless environments where nothing can reach you albeit the creativity which you desire to express.
Friends Foes & Family is focused around love, time, beauty, culture and compassion. Each element is a mantra to the works of Mark Visione who is currently exploring the capacity of children's drawings and young perceptions of culture.
Visione has spent over 25 years living and working in both Australia and Europe. He focuses on traditional etching techniques, but also sees time as a medium in itself. "The layering of images, the inclusion and manipulation of chance ... are metaphors ... in which decay and erosion are indistinguishable companions to growth and development - time as the revealer of both natural and cultural process."
This exhibition is a questioning of subject matter, what artists find themselves portraying both at an early age and late in a career, but always coming back to what is inherent in life. Love, beauty and culture are themes that abound in the roundness of Visione's characters and the stories they tell. The lack of sharp edges adds a layer of softness to the existing playful quality of the childlike and graphically interpreted forms.
With a basic colour palette the eye is drawn to the figures, the interaction of objects and the delicate relationships which appear on paper.
Both Susan Baran and Mark Visione will hold artists' talks on Saturday November 22 at 2:30, RSVP appreciated.
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